blogs from the dub side

Strictly Vinyl Reviews #004
This time around on the review block ... Edikanfo, The Esquires and Oscar D'Leon ...
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Third Thursday, Free Mixes, Part 5
Ongoing monthly series ... this month download "Cool Down The Pace"
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Drastic Vinyl
Shameless self-promotion here ... we got new vinyl coming in ... 2 different 7"s both featuring MC Zulu on "Love is War" and "Lonely No More" ... find out more!
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updates from the drastics blog

Third Thursday Free Mix, Part 2

This month I've profiled Drastic bassman, bassie, bassist Chris ... Definitely more on the heavy and dub side than Bijan's mix ... we open this collection of jams with Chris explaining how to properly drink a bottle of cognac we stole obtained legally after we opened for Mad Prof. After that it's more or less just that gangsta style ... read more/download


Strictly Vinyl Reviews #003
Up for grades this time: The Mighty Sparrow, The Soul Children and Laura Nyro ... read more

[The Drastics]

Third Thursday, Free Mixes!

In our tireless effort to give YOU the people more of what you want, I'm introducing a new series on the ol' Drastics blog ...

Third Thursday DJ Mix ... Some of you might be aware of the mixes I put together under "The Blends" ... a couple are posted on our myspace page ...

Anyway, I decided to start a collection of reggae mixes each profiling a member of the group here ... We all (obviously) like Jamaican music but we all like certain styles a lil more than others ... This month to kick things off I humbly offer The Bijan Mix.

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[The Drastics]

more music

so here's another mix that got used on "Echo Beach", Chicago's only dub reggae show (WLUW 88.7fm) ... mixed together by yer's truly, this one is entitled "Cool Down the Pace" ... I did this mix shortly after my accident sort of as a way to prove to myself that I wasn't an invalid and partly because it was so damn HOT ... the alternate title to this mix was "City Too Hot: The Cast Mixtape" ... cause, ya know, those dudes hustling mixtapes off the subway are always titling their shit way epically like that ... ya heard !? So yeah, this one is 99% dubwise ... enjoy!



here's your tracklist

16.1. Brad Osborne - King of Zion Dub
16.2. Roots Radics - Tubby's Daddy Dub
16.3. The Upsetters - Grumbling Dub
16.4. Little Roy - Tribal War Version
16.5. Super 8 Corporation - 23rd Version
16.6. Junior Moore - Love Me Little Girl
16.7. The Crystalites - Lippy
16.8. Linval Thompson - Jah Peoples Dub
16.9. Scientist - Wa Di Is Free
16.10. Junior Reid - Human Nature Version
16.11. Culture - Jah Jah See Them A Come Version
16.12. The Revolutionaries - Shango
16.13. Prince Douglas Sunshine Dub
16.14. Tommy McCook - Roots of Africa
16.15. Horace Andy - Prophesy
16.16. The Tamlins - Lovelight Crucial Version
16.17. King Tubby - Killa Dub
16.18. The Heptones & Lee Perry Allstars - Serious Time Version
16.19. The Drastics w/ Ralph "Soul" Jackson – Dub Me Back